Record number of Belgians request Catholic disaffiliation

Nearly 15,000 Belgians asked to be removed from Catholic registries last year

More than 14,000 people requested to be removed from the baptismal registers of the Catholic Church in Belgium last year, a number that almost triples the previous record, according to an annual report from the Belgian bishops.

Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, Brussels. Credit: Luc Viatour/wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0

The Church in Belgium adopted the p…